Constitution
Trump and the way forward
Donald Trump is in an excellent position to capture the nomination, while Nikki Haley makes a desperate bid in New Hampshire.
Yesterday’s dramatic, sudden, and barely hinted-at withdrawal of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) from the Republican Presidential nomination race has changed the game. Not everyone sees that, and that’s one thing that makes the game interesting. For another thing, the moderates and the Never-Trumpers are trying to cloud the issue by calling Donald Trump unelectable. “He lost in 2020 and he’ll lose again, if he doesn’t toe the moderate line!” goes the common refrain. Nothing can be further from the truth. In fact, those arguing against Trump miss many key points that could ensure his victory, if the right people move into the right places to make these things happen.
How the DeSantis withdrawal surprised everyone
Ron DeSantis should have surprised no one with his withdrawal – yet he clearly did. His campaign had been falling apart for months. It reached the height of absurdity when the head of the campaign’s Iowa office spread out a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle on a table in front of the whole staff, and worked on it while everyone else was hunched over laptops trying to make the impossible happen. All this was part of what NBC News called “a total failure to launch.”
Yet even after Trump trounced the field in Iowa, everyone else still pretended that DeSantis was still in the race, and could still win. News flash! This year’s Iowa Caucuses were not the typical inconclusive three- or four-way wash of past election cycles. Donald Trump won a simple majority of the vote, and left all the rest of the field in his dust. That makes them decisive as they never have been before. The only excuse for people missing its significance is the Law of Inertia:
A body in motion remains in motion, at the same speed and in the same direction, until a force acts on it.
Gov. DeSantis finally recognized the nature of that force – Trump the Force of Nature. That’s why he canceled his Sunday morning media appearances. People should have gotten a clue then but they didn’t. But the rumors started flying at about noon yesterday. Then at three minutes of three, DeSantis made it official.
How Trump and his followers reacted
The Gateway Pundit has a treasure trove of articles showing various reactions. For other reactions, one turns directly to X.
Donald Trump, and the son who shares his name, surprised more people with their magnanimity in victory. As Jim Hoft reported, Trump Senior considered himself “very honored” to have the governor’s endorsement. The campaign then issued this official statement:
With only a few days left until President Donald J. Trump’s victory in New Hampshire, we are honored by the endorsement from Governor Ron DeSantis and so many other former presidential candidates. It is now time for all Republicans to rally behind President Trump to defeat Crooked Joe Biden and end his disastrous presidency.
Nikki Haley is the candidate of the globalists and Democrats who will do everything to stop the America First movement. From higher taxes, to decimating Social Security and Medicare, and to open borders, she represents the views of Democrats more than the views of Republicans.
It’s time to choose wisely.
Hoft followed up with another report quoting Trump as saying he would no longer use the nickname “DeSanctimonious” for the Florida governor.
Everyone understood what he meant: Ron DeSantis was no longer a competitor, therefore no longer threat or even significant factor. When you win one objective, you plan immediately to take the next one.
Donald Trump Jr. posted his own announcement in a similar vein:
Last night Trump held a rally in Rochester, New Hampshire. People lined up hours ahead of time to get in, in freezing cold weather.
Contrast that with Nikki Haley’s very poorly attended speech in the same town:
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Herodotus
To be sure, not all his followers were as gracious as he. Laura Loomer vowed that the Trump campaign should hire none of DeSantis’ workers.
No doubt she remembers all the times the governor or his staff excluded her from their events. Even before he entered the race, DeSantis called the police on Loomer outside a bookstore – and she definitely remembers that.
But after she published this post,
she stopped talking about Ron DeSantis.
Trouble for Laura Loomer
Nikki Haley now occupies the bulk of her attention. We say bulk because she gave every indication that she did not know about the problem of search results not listing her true account, which CNAV reported yesterday, and of which we advised her by direct message. She definitely knows it now, and also about more troubling signs of a concerted attack on her account. Here is one such sign:
This morning she protested to Elon Musk, the new owner of X:
For the record, Laura Loomer has 799,300 followers this morning, and has now surpassed 800,000:
But CNAV can attest directly to the other thing she noticed about her account not resolving in search bars.
Now turn to matters concerning Donald Trump on one hand, and Nikki Haley on the other.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump did hold that rally in Rochester, as he promised.
David Greyson quoted Trump as boasting of “the highest level of enthusiasm that anybody has ever seen ever.” He then cited the reasons for it: open borders, and elections of questionable integrity. Of course he promised to “terminate every open border policy” of this administration.
Well he might fear dishonest elections – for real. The case of Curling v. Raffensperger is still proceeding before Judge Amy Totenberg of the Federal District Court in Atlanta. Early yesterday morning, Jim Hoft reported an electrifying event in court. Prof. J. Alex Halderman, who famously showed that Georgia’s voting machines – from Dominion Voting Services – are eminently hackable, demonstrated how easy one could hack them in open court. He set up a Ballot Marking Device, one of two kinds of electronic voting machine. (The other is a scanner-tabulator that actually records the votes.) Then he borrowed a pen from the lead defense counsel, to heighten the humiliation. Using the back of the pen, he held the Power button down for five to seven seconds. This put the BMD into safe mode.
Do that with a BMD, and you can cause it to generate a Quick Read code to vote for a candidate different from that of the voter’s choosing. Do that with a scanner-tabulator, and you can change the vote totals that the Chief Officer of Election (OOE) reports up the chain.
An assassination threat?
Trump might also have fresh reason to fear for his life. Laura Loomer revealed something else, in addition to her problems with the X Trust and Safety Team. An X account purportedly belonging to Alex Soros (son of George) shared a link and a featured image from an article in The Atlantic, talking about “normalization” of increased crime and inflation.
The absurd prose in The Atlantic need not concern us – but the image does.One side of the image showed a bullet hole in a car window. The other showed a hand holding some U.S. currency: a twenty, two tens, a five, and two ones. Total value: $47. Note also the prominent placement of the digits 4 and 5 in the first two bills. It may or may not be significant that the holder didn’t bother to sort them.
The reaction he got was electric. General Mike Flynn seized upon it and asked what message he was trying to send.
Three users immediately denounced the post as an assassination threat.
Laura Loomer quote-posted it as well:
She then followed it up with this analysis:
Indeed, why would a photographer at The Atlantic publish a picture of someone holding two silver certificates among otherwise ordinary U.S. cash bills? Other bills even have the words “will pay to the bearer on demand.” Bills like that have been obsolete since after the Kennedy assassination.
Laura Loomer has quote-posted her analysis and mentioned Elon Musk.
Kennedy for Vice-President?
Aside from that, why is Patriot Clash actively pushing a ticket with Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.? This can only be more “Trump is unelectable” narrative. CNAV has said before why we cannot endorse Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for President. Nor have we seen any showing that the sense of the American public would agree with his platform of gun control. And to answer another question Patriot Clash raised: Bobby Kennedy, you’re no Andrew Johnson.
To make it even more difficult to imagine Trump needing to appoint a “conciliatory” running mate, he is already polling more than 60 percent in tomorrow’s New Hampshire primary.
Nikki Haley
RealClearPolitics’ columnist Philip Wegmann seems to have pivoted from the DeSantis campaign to the Haley campaign. Before the withdrawal, he noted that Haley launched an ad featuring the familyh of Otto Warmbier. This American was unlawfully detained in North Korea for more than a year. Though someone won him his release, he didn’t live very long to enjoy it. President Obama told the family to “be quiet” about their son’s captivity. President Trump did win his releases in June of 2017 – though he lived only six days after that. Nikki Haley’s point is that Trump continues to praise North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, despite Warmbier’s death.
After the DeSantis withdrawal, Wegmann did a profile on the Nikki Haley campaign. But he seemed to spend more time giving reasons for DeSantis’ failure than for Nikki Haley’s likelihood of success. He also reveals that the essence of her campaign is that she is “not Trump.”
That also seems to be the theme of her advertising, most prominently on YouTube. She insists that she outpolls Biden while Trump loses to Biden; even Philip Wegmann would dispute that. She also says the Biden-Harris campaign and the legacy media want a Trump-Biden rematch because Biden can beat Trump but not Haley. The alleged reason: Trump would be tied up in court, if a judge doesn’t convict him. (Does anyone care about that? Philip Wegmann might think so, but Interactive Polls says otherwise.)
What problems will Trump have, and what do some say he will have?
Erick-Woods Erickson has had to make a similar pivot. This morning he wrote of the “Haley Mary Pass in New Hampshire.” He admits that Haley will likely not win. But he also insists that most Americans are not up for a rematch between Trump and Biden.
Erickson makes at least three easily refutable points:
The voters who voted in 2020 are most likely to vote in 2024, and even now, they have a preference for Joe Biden.
Who says? He will not even admit that a critical number of those “81 million voters” never existed. That’s why they didn’t populate any of his rallies. Of course he, a Georgian, won’t admit that Georgia elections, and Georgia politics, have been dirty for thirteen years. Recall J. Alex Halderman’s demonstration of how dirty Georgia elections really are.
In 2022, Kari Lake, three days before the election, publicly said she did not want McCain voters supporting her. They took her at her word. She lost. 2024 cannot afford such hubris.
Kari Lake did not lose. Maricopa County’s Recorder of Elections stole it from her. That election was an embarrassment to Officers of Election everywhere.
A big question on the right will be about authentic evangelicals who regularly go to church, not the self-described ones who never darken the door of a church. If they do conclude this nation has become a nation full of moral degeneracy, they may decide choosing between two moral degenerates will not actually advance the kingdom and stay home.
Why didn’t they stay home in 2020? Trump, in 2020, outperformed his own vote total in 2016. Furthermore, we evangelicals know the difference between a serial monogamist (one who has many wives, but one at a time) and a cradle-robber (consider how Biden met Jill while his first wife was alive), a fetishist, and a pedophile. Speaking of that last: Trump fought the worldwide pedophile network, while Biden stood down.
Nikki Haley’s donors
Finally, Nikki Haley’s big base of support is a set of globalist donors. As Laura Loomer revealed on January 4:
We shall see whether that meeting even comes off after tomorrow. Which it might not. Today Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) endorsed Trump.
Not only does that represent a considerable change for Rep. Mace, but it also supports Laura Loomer’s contention that Trump has the support of every Republican Member of the South Carolina delegation to the House of Representatives.
Conclusion
Donald Trump needs to see to his own security. If a retired general takes seriously the implied threat in an online composite image, not only can we forgive Laura Loomer for taking it equally seriously, but we should take it seriously as well. That aside, Trump continues to excel, while Nikki Haley is running a campaign based on falsehoods.
Of higher concern is the continued insecurity of elections, especially in Georgia. “Riff Raff” Raffensperger doesn’t plan even to update the machines for the upcoming election. Patriotic Americans can trust neither him nor Governor Kemp. Particularly when they have a corrupt District Attorney in Fulton County – and refuse to investigate. So the security of elections is in the hands of Republican volunteers – accredited challengers (poll watchers) and Officers of Election (poll workers).
On the other hand, Biden has lost the “cheater’s baseline.” Any attempt to reverse the election, as happened in 2020, might not be worth the risk of exposure. Judges in certain isolated cases have in fact called for new elections, if not reversed them entirely. Exposure would bring not only judicial intervention, but also prison sentences. Democrats, and their WEF masters, know this. Hence Alex Soros’ cryptic post of a bullet hole and a collection of currency in a suggestive amount and with equally suggestive check numbers.
The primary schedule continues, after tomorrow’s primary, with the South Carolina Republican Primary, and then “Super Tuesday.” How much longer will Nikki Haley last? Time will tell.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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